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The raid resulted in the deaths of at least seven Palestinians, including a local doctor, Ossayed Kamal Jabareen. Jenin, a known militant stronghold, has been frequently targeted by Israeli raids. Since the war with Hamas began, nearly 500 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank, with Israel citing efforts to curb rising militancy and arresting over 3,000 Palestinians.
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A former funeral home director who allegedly stored a long-dead body and other remains at his house is being hunted by police in the US state of Colorado. Cleaners stumbled on the cremated remains, or cremains, of dozens of people after evicting Miles Harford from a property in Denver earlier this month. When police arrived, they found a hearse on the premises containing the body of a 63-year-old woman who had died 18 months earlier, along with more boxes of cremains, Denver police said Friday. Investigators said the body has been stored in the vehicle since her death in Au...
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Memphis (AFP) - Civil rights leaders, family and friends came together in a Memphis church Wednesday to bid farewell to Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old African American whose fatal beating by police shocked the nation -- and triggered urgent calls for reform. "We mourn with you, and the people of our country mourn with you," Vice President Kamala Harris told the young man's family during a rousing service punctuated by gospel music and emotional speeches. Anger is still simmering over Nichols' death on January 10, three days after he was beaten and kicked in a traffic stop by five Black police o...
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Memphis (AFP) - Hundreds gathered in a Memphis church Wednesday to bid farewell to Tyre Nichols, an African American man who died after being brutally beaten by police, with civil rights leaders Al Sharpton leading the high-profile service attended by Vice President Kamala Harris. Anger is still simmering over the death last month of Nichols, three days after the 29-year-old was beaten and kicked in a traffic stop by five Black police officers -- in an incident that rekindled a national debate about brutality in law enforcement. "We have come into this place locked in solidarity across the nat...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden on Saturday headed to London to attend the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. The state funeral, the first in Britain since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, will take place Monday at Westminster Abbey in London at 11:00 am (1000 GMT). Biden will be among several hundred leaders from around the world attending the somber and historic event, along with some 2,000 other guests. While the leaders of the European Union, France, Japan and many other countries will attend, those of Russia, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Syria and North Korea were not invited. On Su...
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New York (AFP) - Ex-president Donald Trump and his eldest children gathered at a church in New York on Wednesday to say goodbye to his first wife Ivana who died last week aged 73. Don Jr, Ivanka and Eric Trump joined their father and former first lady Melania for their mother's funeral service at St. Vincent Ferrer Church on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The siblings and their partners and children looked on solemnly as Ivana Trump's casket was carried into the church for the 1:30 pm (17:30 pm) service. Donald Trump and Melania entered by a side door, an AFP photographer saw, as the funeral too...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden hailed Madeleine Albright at her funeral Wednesday as a diplomatic giant whose rise from child refugee to first female secretary of state represented the best of the United States. Albright, who also served as US ambassador to the United Nations, died last month at 84. Reflecting her status on the world stage, the televised funeral in Washington's National Cathedral was packed with more than 1,400 people and featured tributes from Biden, former president Bill Clinton who appointed Albright to secretary of state, and Hillary Clinton, who likewise served as...
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New York (AFP) - Thousands of New York police officers turned Fifth Avenue into a sea of navy blue Wednesday as they bade farewell to the second of two colleagues recently shot dead. Officer Wilbert Mora, 27, died last week from injuries sustained while responding to a domestic disturbance in Harlem on January 21. His police partner Jason Rivera, 22, was also killed and was laid to rest on Friday. New York Police Department personnel, former cops and politicians -- including city Mayor Eric Adams -- gathered at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan for Mora's funeral service that was held in bo...
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Jerusalem (AFP) - Billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, a staunch supporter of US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was be buried in Jerusalem Friday, an AFP photographer at the cemetery said. Adelson died of cancer in the United States on Tuesday and his body arrived in Israel late Thursday, according to the Israel Hayom newspaper, founded by the Adelson family. Netanyahu met the coffin and Adelson's wife Miriam at the airport, Israel Hayom reported. Miriam Adelson, born in British mandate Palestine, is the paper's publisher. Adelson was buried in t...
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